Hispanic classical theater, on stage and in study
Scholars, theater practitioners, educators and aficionados of the Spanish Golden Age comedia, in an international association since 1984.
Next symposium
AHCT 2026 · Annual SymposiumRegistration open
UCLA, Los Angeles · 17-19 September 2026
Held alongside LA Escena, UCLA’s biennial festival of Hispanic classical theater, of which AHCT is a partner.
Call for papers
Comedia PerformanceOpen
Deadline 1 August 2027 · for the 2028 volume
Comedia Performance, the journal of the AHCT, welcomes articles on the Spanish comedia in performance: historical and modern staging, translation for the stage, and the material history of the theatre. No more than 25 double-spaced pages, notes and works cited included.
News
Calls, prizes and the symposium.
What you will find here
Forty years of archive, journal and community.
Comedia Performance
The association’s peer-reviewed journal, devoted to the comedia in performance.
245 plays · 689 actsDigital Play Texts
The Vern Williamsen and Matthew Stroud archive: Tirso, Mira de Amescua, Calderón, Alarcón, Lope, Cervantes and fourteen more playwrights.
For the classroomEducational Resources
Lesson plans, presentations, play summaries, bibliography and an image archive: woodcuts, maps, stage machinery, Golden Age art.
Eight prizesPrizes and grants
Research, pedagogy, translation, production and service, plus the Hesse Grant for graduate students.
Who stages the comedia today
And where to see it.
About the AHCT
Spanish classical theater, the comedia, is one of the most remarkable theatrical phenomena of the West: more than a thousand playwrights and over ten thousand surviving plays, with an influence that reached all of Europe and the Americas and has never stopped growing.
Founded as a non-profit organization in 1984, AHCT is dedicated to promoting and fostering a deeper appreciation of that theater in performance. About the association →
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